Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-415) and index.
Arrivals -- Student days : the shared experience of survival -- Joseph Lister and the teaching of surgery -- First steps : the first five years after qualification -- Jex-Blake's women : education and careers -- Varieties of practice -- Listerism in practice -- Lister's men abroad : settlers -- Lister's men abroad : imperialists, missionaries and enclaves -- Last days